Comments on: Rudely Interrupted http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/ Held together with duct tape and spewing bullets... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior" http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior" Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:41:13 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1159 Great stuff, don't like party poopers either :) Keep recording these fights! Great stuff, don’t like party poopers either :)

Keep recording these fights!

]]> By: wensley http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-/#comment-1158 wensley Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:25:27 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1158 Yeah, there is no guarantee that I'd have survived. Especially if that gank squad was on its way. If you watch the video carefully you can see one of the hostile pilots warp in in an Arazu and then cloak up. My main frustration was still having to change ammunition types to fight the Claw. I think I'm just going to stop carrying Hail so I don't get into these situations. It was doubly the death of me because looking at the <a href="http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Hail_S" rel="nofollow">description of Hail S</a> it reduces capacitor recharge so my active tank buckled quickly. Without Hail I'd probably been able to get off that last rep cycle which might have saved my life. So, in summary, I think 20/20 is an understatement. Its more like rose-tinted glasses. Oh well :) PS - Loving the fact I can now have comment discussions properly. Yeah, there is no guarantee that I’d have survived. Especially if that gank squad was on its way. If you watch the video carefully you can see one of the hostile pilots warp in in an Arazu and then cloak up.

My main frustration was still having to change ammunition types to fight the Claw. I think I’m just going to stop carrying Hail so I don’t get into these situations. It was doubly the death of me because looking at the description of Hail S it reduces capacitor recharge so my active tank buckled quickly. Without Hail I’d probably been able to get off that last rep cycle which might have saved my life.

So, in summary, I think 20/20 is an understatement. Its more like rose-tinted glasses. Oh well :)

PS – Loving the fact I can now have comment discussions properly.

]]> By: wensley http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-/#comment-1157 wensley Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:21:21 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1157 Ah the joys of hindsight. Mind you, that's why I like writing this blog and capturing fights on video. It gives me a chance to analyse what I did and learn from my mistakes far more than casual killboard comments would. You're right about the difference between burning away with an afterburner compared to an MWD. I think the big mistake is trying to run away in a straight line. You need to disengage in a spiral path, the exact opposite to how you should approach a target. The web changes have made disengaging from close range easier, though. A 90% web basically locked you into the fight and gave you no option for getting out. In the early parts of this fight I was able to dip into web range to get him to engage and then drop out to do drone control before heading back in to scram him and settle in for the kill. Ah the joys of hindsight. Mind you, that’s why I like writing this blog and capturing fights on video. It gives me a chance to analyse what I did and learn from my mistakes far more than casual killboard comments would.

You’re right about the difference between burning away with an afterburner compared to an MWD. I think the big mistake is trying to run away in a straight line. You need to disengage in a spiral path, the exact opposite to how you should approach a target. The web changes have made disengaging from close range easier, though. A 90% web basically locked you into the fight and gave you no option for getting out. In the early parts of this fight I was able to dip into web range to get him to engage and then drop out to do drone control before heading back in to scram him and settle in for the kill.

]]> By: wensley http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-/#comment-1156 wensley Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:17:29 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1156 Ah yes. Thanks for that. Stupid YouTube vetoed my music and made it private so I had to put on some royalty free music and forgot to make it public again. Should work as advertised now. EveTube is better anyway but I can't embed it into Wordpress. Ah yes. Thanks for that. Stupid YouTube vetoed my music and made it private so I had to put on some royalty free music and forgot to make it public again. Should work as advertised now.

EveTube is better anyway but I can’t embed it into WordPress.

]]> By: Thorvik http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Thorvik Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:05:08 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1155 Great Vid. Great music. Sry you didn't get the Myrm but you are right, you should have kept the focus on the Myrm until the claw got closer. You may still have popped but as Spectre said this is 20/20 hindsight in action Great Vid. Great music. Sry you didn’t get the Myrm but you are right, you should have kept the focus on the Myrm until the claw got closer. You may still have popped but as Spectre said this is 20/20 hindsight in action

]]> By: Spectre http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-/#comment-1154 Spectre Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:52:07 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1154 Oh and P.S. The video won't play: "This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender's friend request." Oh and P.S. The video won’t play: “This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender’s friend request.”

]]> By: Spectre http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2009/03/rudely-interrupted/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 Spectre Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:51:01 +0000 http://wensley.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-1153 The scrambler changes really whacked things out when it comes to fleeing from fights as a friggy. Before you would always have a MWD and toggling it and losing your transversal wasn't a big deal considering how much speed you suddenly gained and how fast you got out of range. With a lot of frigs fitting AB's and MWD's getting scrammed off, it almost never pays now to even try to flee from a close fight. Better to go down swinging then to lose your transversal and suddenly start taking 5x the damage trying to get away. I had the same thing happen to me yesterday in an Enyo where if I had just stuck around and DPS'd the ship instead of attacking his drones and trying to flee partway through, I would have probably won. Hindsight is always 20/20, right? The scrambler changes really whacked things out when it comes to fleeing from fights as a friggy. Before you would always have a MWD and toggling it and losing your transversal wasn’t a big deal considering how much speed you suddenly gained and how fast you got out of range. With a lot of frigs fitting AB’s and MWD’s getting scrammed off, it almost never pays now to even try to flee from a close fight. Better to go down swinging then to lose your transversal and suddenly start taking 5x the damage trying to get away. I had the same thing happen to me yesterday in an Enyo where if I had just stuck around and DPS’d the ship instead of attacking his drones and trying to flee partway through, I would have probably won.

Hindsight is always 20/20, right?

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